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Middle East Block
Hoda's Story: on March 1, 2003, 12 year-old Hoda Darwish is hit in the head by a bullet while sitting at her desk in a elementary school in Kahn Younis in the Gaza Strip. Hoda miraculously survives, but wakes up former coma asking when the daylight comes. The bullet blinded her. She struggles to come to terms with her altered life, doubting her will to live, amidst the endless violence in the Gaza Strip. Her family repeatedly brings her to Egypt in the hope that a medical operation would give back her eyesight. Her hope to be cured deprives her of the willpower to learn techniques needed by visually impaired persons.
After the 2009 war, Hoda is visited by Mervat, the girl who sat next to her when the bullet came. Mervat is in university now and the encounter is a life changing moment for Hoda. She admits she as wasted years clinging to the hope of seeing again. In the years after, hora surprises everyone by improving he life in a remarkable way.
War On Peace: This Iranian short documentary asks the question: What is the influence of war in a family?
Butterflies: This documentary short follows a nervous mother desperately trying to find a private space in bustling city to breastfeed her hungry baby.
The Endless River: info coming soon!
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LocationGoggleworks Center for the Arts (View)
201 Washington Street
Reading, PA 19602
United States
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| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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